Monday 27 November 2006

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I was recently in London and Ireland for a couple of weeks. The weather was great, I did some cycling up & down the rolling hills of the Emerald Isle, and I took lots of neat pictures.

Here's one of the Bodelian Library at Oxford. It's a beautiful, standard bicycle of the old-fashioned "safety" design. Great for getting around a university town. You know, I was amazed at how FEW bicycles there were in London/Ireland. I mean, it's mostly flat terrain, the roads are as narrow as a bathtub, and it never really gets cold, so it would make sense to follow the example of the Dutch. They can be so elegant, even when at rest: